novelraw Chapter 616: The Rat Technique of the Twelve Zodiacs, Luban's Forbidden Art, and the Heart-Gnawing Curse on Immortals
Chapter 616: The Rat Technique of the Twelve Zodiacs, Luban's Forbidden Art, and the Heart-Gnawing Curse on Immortals
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Would Lu Ding believe it?
Not a single word from this cunning old demon could be trusted!
Unless you completely subdued it and made it genuinely submit.
Otherwise, once it understood your intentions, it would just string you along.
Besides, Lu Ding could find the demons from the Wuwang organization without relying on it.
As long as he thoroughly cleansed the new city, these things would jump out on their own.
Moreover.
He still had the reincarnator Zhan Tingzhou.
That was even more useful than a treasure-hunting rat.As for those heavenly treasures and earthly valuables.
Lu Ding could just seize them after killing it.
And look, the Rat Demon was already this heartbroken over losing just one [Hate Child Surviving Alone].
Lu Ding didn't believe it had anything better.
So forget it.
The Black Prison of Death's Body was relentless until death.
Better to just die sooner.
He glanced over at the Earth Dragon Immortal, who was currently torturing Chen Yan to avenge its children.
Lu Ding decided to let it vent a little longer.
After all, having endured for so many years, the Earth Dragon Immortal had provided significant help for this operation.
This was its final moment of release anyway.
A little more time wouldn't matter.
Lu Ding disliked wasting time, but if the time was spent watching the Earth Dragon Immortal torment Chen Yan...
He didn't consider that a waste.
It wasn't like Chen Yan could escape anyway.
Perfect timing.
Lu Ding could also check out the rewards from this capture.
[Contained Monster: Tang Rat]
[Containment Reward: Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing (Spell)]
[Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing, one of the Twelve Zodiac Rat Methods, ranked first among the twelve, gnaws cultivation hearts, steals cultivation fruits, destroys cultivation bases, burns life incense]
Looking at these descriptions.
Lu Ding's face darkened: "Why did it have to be this damn thing..."
He regretted it, he deeply regretted not torturing the Rat Demon more thoroughly!!
Back when Lu Ding read novels in his previous life, he always wondered who exactly was the "one person" referred to in the saying "when one person attains the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."
Later when he went searching for answers.
He accidentally came across a passage about the Tang Rat in the [Classic of Waterways] on a colorful, flashy website.
It said [Master Tang, styled Gongfang, native of Chenggu... studied the Dao and attained immortality... ascended to heaven in broad daylight... roosters crowed in the heavens, dogs barked among the clouds, only the rat was left behind due to its wickedness... on the last day of each month, it would vomit out its intestines and stomach and regenerate them, hence people of that time called it the Tang Rat...]
The general meaning was.
In ancient times, there was a Dao cultivator surnamed Tang who practiced diligently through winter's coldest days and summer's hottest periods. Through relentless effort, he came to understand that hard work couldn't beat technology.
Just like bodybuilding - damn, natural training couldn't compare to technological enhancement.
You had to take drugs!
You had to inject!
Only then could you build bigger, build stronger.
Plus he already had a solid foundation, so he thought to himself.
If people without good foundations could become immortals through drugs, and I already have a foundation, wouldn't I be even more awesome if I took drugs too?
This Tang guy was ruthless.
He immediately put his plan into action.
Whoosh, he concocted a pill.
Shouting "I can become an immortal, all through my own efforts," he directly swallowed the pill.
That scene - special effects filled the sky, ascending to heaven in broad daylight.
Hehe, he succeeded!
Not only did he succeed, but even his dogs, chickens, and other animals followed him up to heaven.
Only his rat was left behind. That rat wasn't an honest creature either - if it had just stayed quietly at home, it could have ascended too.
But at the critical moment, it went to chat about life with the girl rat next door.
Seeing that there was a "click for details" link about the untold stories between the Tang Rat and the girl rat.
He didn't even click, just moved his mouse slightly.
Good heavens, it immediately redirected him to another page.
This was before the internet cleanup, so the content was quite explicit.
Really eye-searing.
It gave him psychological trauma.
Of course, it was also his fault for reading too fast. By the time he realized what he was looking at, it was too late to regret.
Just like the Tang Rat in the [Classic of Waterways].
Regret, truly damn regret.
The Tang Rat regretted its lack of self-control.
Lu Ding regretted reading too quickly.
It completely stunned him at the time.
Wait, is this right?
This incident also made the Tang Rat leave a deep impression in Lu Ding's mind.
In the following days, this thing haunted him like a ghost.
Lu Ding would always come across records about the Tang Rat's deeds in many inexplicable ancient texts.
Among them were related origin stories about the Heart-Gnawing Immortal spell.
Not completely explanatory, but relevant.
It said that after being left behind, the Tang Rat gave up and went around destroying good people's houses and food, gnawing here and there.
As its destructive range expanded, it naturally provoked powerful individuals.
Among them, it offended the great master Lu Ban.
One specialized in gnawing and destroying houses, the other was the ancestral master of carpentry who specialized in building houses.
These two were natural arch-enemies.
They would fight at the slightest disagreement.
Let's be honest, Lu Ban was indeed amazing, but the Tang Rat was no pushover either - something that almost ascended to immortality definitely had some tricks up its sleeve. In the end, neither could overcome the other.
So they negotiated.
Lu Ban: "Stop your damn gnawing. If you keep gnawing, I'll really go all out and beat you up."
The Tang Rat heard this.
A wise rat knows when to retreat - when it came to life-or-death fights, it wasn't confident.
"Fine, I'll stop gnawing, but give me some benefits."
Lu Ban was the ancestral master of carpentry, a man of his word, so he said: "I'll give you a title, one with 'immortal' in it, okay?"
The Tang Rat had always regretted missing immortality, so hearing this title with "immortal" in it, it nodded: "Deal."
Master Lu at the time didn't think much about it and casually gave it the title "Heart-Gnawing Immortal."
As for why it was called Heart-Gnawing Immortal - for ordinary people in ancient times, their houses represented their life's work and effort. When they finally hired a great carpenter to build a house,
only to have it gnawed by rats, wasn't that like gnawing at their very hearts?
Later, in the mystical text [Lu Ban Classic], the deeds of the Heart-Gnawing Immortal were passed down through generations.
Truth be told, anything certified by Master Lu was terrifying.
This [Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing] was purely a life-combat technique, with ridiculously powerful effects.
For others, this thing was deadly.
But for Lu Ding, it was simply another major trump card.
[Heaven-Man Unity] and [White Snake Shakes Scales]
One acted on hidden soul talents, the other on visible flesh and blood.
Combined, he could definitely withstand a high-powered spell like [Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing]. As for whether enemies could withstand it, that was another matter.
Once enemies couldn't withstand it...
Lu Ding showed a smile: "Then others' cultivation fruits and cultivation hearts would become mine."
Forcibly gnawing others' cultivation hearts and fruits.
Just two words described it: domineering!
Although Lu Ding's own cultivation heart and fruit had high upper limits to begin with, and ordinary stuff wouldn't be very useful even if gnawed, even mosquito legs count as meat.
Mainly, the power was sufficient.
Glancing at the Earth Dragon Immortal venting its resentment and anger nearby, and Chen Yan struggling and screaming in pain.
Lu Ding thought for a moment.
"Forget it, let it go."
Originally, he had instinctively considered using them to test [Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing], but he had promised the Earth Dragon Immortal to leave it a complete corpse.
So, forget it.
[Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing] was too powerful - he might not even leave ashes of the Earth Dragon Immortal.
One should keep their word.
Even without using [Immortal-Disgusting Heart-Gnawing], Lu Ding believed the Earth Dragon Immortal would contribute a very good technique to him.
After all, the Earth Dragon Immortal had connections to both immortals and dragons.
Just as he looked over there.
Chen Yan also looked over.
Their eyes met.
Chen Yan saw hope.
Don't misunderstand - not hope for life, but hope for death.
Living under the Earth Dragon Immortal's hands was too painful, he wanted to die!!!!!
For him, even one more minute or second of life meant living in hell.
Pure torment!!!
"Kill me!!!! Please kill me!!!!"